Monday, June 8, 2015

Good God


"Out beyond our ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field;
I'll meet you there."
~Rumi

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Interesting our ideas of right and wrong...
our two dimensional dogmatic "morality"
which, drowning in Love's ocean that covers multitudinous missteps,
goes down measuring misdeeds
in jots, tittles, and teaspoons...
ignorant of the Metadata, the Matrix,
and worse, of the Great Mathematician Himself...

How lonely is this Wisdom
this True Morality
with which Jesus faced down the Pharisees
and got a hooker off the hook

How much we miss
having made our mountains out of minutiae
having traded the God of the Good Book
for the tedium of bookkeeping
having missed entirely the Forest for our idolized little trees

Our Eyes to See fail for blindly staring
at short-sighted subtractions and additions
our carefully made columns
and sticky gold stars...

...When all the while
A Heaven full of stars Waits
For us to Look Up from our flimsy lists and ledgers
To See instead with sextant hearts
Just-Because Beauty,
 Mercy for Miles,
and the sin-swallowing Grace of God
Whose Love has everything to do with His Goodness,
and nothing
 whatsoever
to do
with ours.

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"I pray that you may apprehend and grasp the experience of the Love of God, what is the breadth and length and height and depth of it; that you may really come to know, practically, through experience for yourselves, the Love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience; that you may be filled through all your being with the fullness of God, that you may have the richest measure of The Divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself."
-Ephesians 3:18-19, Amplified Version

2 comments:

Jennifer Richardson said...

Oh how I will read and re-read this....such a bounty of
truth and wonder and beauty! Thank you friend.
Our idolized little trees, indeed. I'm so weary of my
idolatry.
I appreciate this life-giving feast.
And you, friend.
-Jennifer

KR said...

Beautiful, concise, succinct, truth in a nutshell- bless you for sharing your insights into God's fathomless depths and heights, His ultra-true love way beyond containment or understanding.
Love to you, Honi